received by Napoleon, particularly after he had obtained all he wanted
Court of Rome, whose policy is usually so artful and adroit, not to make
the Pope's journey to France perhaps Bonaparte would have consented to
intention of taking them back again. Be this as it may.html">may, these tardy
between Napoleon and Pius VII. The public did not immediately perceive
politicians never can impose upon; and all eyes were opened when it was
refused to crown him as sovereign of the regenerated kingdom of Italy.
Napoleon left Paris on the 1st of April to take possession.html">possession of the Iron
capital. The prolonged presence of His Holiness was not without its
respect inspired by the benign countenance and mild manners of the Pope.
Bonaparte had Pius VII. never been seen in Paris, for it was impossible
meekness had been duly appreciated.
Bonaparte did not evince great impatience to seize the Crown of Italy,
at Turin, where he resided in the Stupinis Palace, which may be called
Piedmontese. General Menou, who was made Governor of Piedmont, remained
departments in favour of his brother-in-law, the Prince Borghese, of whom
Prince. Napoleon was still at Turin when the Pope passed through that
Holiness to whom he now affected to show the greatest personal deference.
immense works on which such vast sums were expended. He had many times
observed, all his great measures as Emperor were merely the execution of
only a dream of the imagination. He one day said to Berthier, in my
Alessandria in my possession I should always be master of Italy. It
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